Personal & Private Banking Data Engineering Graduate Programme

About the role

The Data Engineering Graduate Programme is a structured development pathway within Personal & Private Banking, aimed at recent graduates with strong analytical and technical aptitude. Participants will gain hands‑on experience with enterprise‑scale data platforms, modern engineering practices, and real business cases while rotating through the full data engineering lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Assist in the development and maintenance of ETL/ELT pipelines using approved tools and platforms.
• Support data ingestion from diverse sources such as databases, files, APIs and external vendors.
• Participate in data transformation and modelling activities to enable analytics and reporting.
• Implement and monitor basic data quality and integrity checks.
• Contribute to data documentation, metadata and lineage artefacts.
• Support production pipelines through monitoring, troubleshooting and incident resolution.
• Engage in Agile/Hybrid delivery ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand‑ups and testing.

Required profile

• Completed undergraduate degree (within the last 2‑3 years) or postgraduate qualification (within the last 2‑3 years or completing in 2026) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or Analytics.
• South African citizenship.
• Basic understanding of relational databases, tables, schemas, keys and data transformations.

Required skills

• SQL (queries, joins, aggregations).
• ETL/ELT concepts and tools.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and modern data architectures.